Problem with smbpasswd command

[dnr01]

When I run smbpasswd command from the /bin directory of 3.23 Samba, I get the response command not found. Any suggestions.

[David Batson]

Are you logged in as su (root)?

[dnr01]

Yes and I'm in the /usr/local/samba/bin directory

[jkerr82508]

Make sure that the file is executable and if /usr/local/samba/bin is not in your path ($PATH), then run the command with

 

 ./smbpasswd

 

Jim

 

P.S. Is there some reason that you're not using the Mandriva samba package, which would have placed smbpasswd in /usr/bin, which is in your path on a default Mandriva system.?

[dnr01]

Make sure that the file is executable and if /usr/local/samba/bin is not in your path ($PATH), then run the command with

 

 ./smbpasswd

I've tried this and checked, it is an executable file but it still comes up bash: ,/smbpasswd: No such file or directory. I had problems with the version of Samba that came with Mandriva. It may have been my fault but it would not find the windbindd file and I couldn't run it so I thought I would download a newer version and start from scratch.

[ianw1974]

It's a full stop before the smbpasswd rather than the comma that you typed above. Alternatively, try:

 

/usr/local/samba/bin/smbpasswd

 

instead because ./smbpasswd will only work if you are actually sitting in the /usr/local/samba/bin directory when you type it. Normally though, the samba packages provided by Mandriva would be easier than downloading and installing manually.

[dnr01]

I've tried the command ./smbpasswd -a owner in the /usr/locall/samba/bin directory and I get the following message

 

[root@localhost bin]# ./smbpasswd -a owner
../smbpasswd: error while loading shared libraries: libtalloc.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

 

Also I've had problems with winbindd on the version of Samba I have available with 2008.1 Mandriva so that is why I thought I would try a newer version of Samba.

[ianw1974]

I think you need to install the libtalloc1 package:

 

urpmi libtalloc1

 

should do the trick then try again.

[dnr01]

[root@localhost home]# urpmi libtalloc1

No package named libtalloc1

 

That is the message that I get. By the way, thank you for all your help. I did a google search and could not find a package or source to download so I'm stuck once again.

[dnr01]

By the way, I found this file libtalloc.so.1 in the lib dirctory.

[theYinYeti]

In general, when you have an error like "library <a lib>.so.x not found", be it at runtime like yours, or at compile-time, the right command to run is:

urpmf "<a lib>" | grep '/lib/.*\.so'

This will tell you what packages have this library. Install the one that matches the best.

 

Next, if you see that "<a lib>.so.x" is not installed on your filesystem, but "<a lib>.so.x.y.z" is and the program is being picky, you can safely create a symbolic link like this, from the directory where this lib is (as root):

ln -s "<a lib>.so.x.y.z" "<a lib>.so.x"

as long as the "x" above matches the one needed by the program you're trying to run; on occasion, you might even have success with a command like this:

ln -s "<a lib>.so.a.b.c" "<a lib>.so.x"

even though "a" and "x" don't match…

 

Yves.

Edited September 11, 2008 by theYinYeti

[dnr01]

I no longer ger tihe message with the libtalloc.so.1 file but now I get this response

 

[root@localhost bin]# ln -s libtdb.so.1 libtdb.so.1

ln: accessing `libtdb.so.1': Too many levels of symbolic links

[theYinYeti]

Indeed! Your command tries to create a link from a file to itself :)

 

Anyway, if libtalloc.so.1 is in /usr/lib, and the programs claims not to find it, then there's a problem with the program, not with your system.

As for libtdb.so.1, I don't think you have any link to create.

In most cases, you don't create a link yourself. It was just a suggestion for future use when the urpmf-then-urpmi method does not work.

 

Yves.